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Southern rights and the Missouri Compromise debate
A lengthy, fragmentary political argument from 1850 discusses Texas annexation, slavery in new territories, and the Missouri Compromise. It asserts southern rights to enter slaveholding territory south of 36 30, warns of Federal overreach, and condemns actions perceived as weakening the Union and pro-slavery expansion. It also covers public meetings, maritime weather notes, and local infrastructure plans including a Wakulla Wakulla plank road meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Texas
Confederacy
Senate
United States
Indian Territory
Minat
Unian
South
California
Missouri
Arkansas
New Port
Fla
Wakulla ‘Times
Georgia Line
Albany
Georgia
Macon
Florida
Oglethorpe
Wakulla
Wakath
B. Richardson
W. W. Macxp
N. P. Burnis
Janes Ormond
Thoming
Sea-Board
Barbacub
Sulphur Spring
Daniel Ladd
T. J. M. Richardson
Geo. S. King
Jas. Caverly
Jax
John G. Park
Walken
Anid
Apstachicols Land Camps
New York
Messrs
Xieg
N. P. Bemis
William
Wakulla Times
Kesener
Spiker Enchion